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A Faster Way to a High Protein Breakfast

There’s a lot of buzz in the news lately about studies that show the benefits of a higher protein diet. Research has shown that protein helps improve focus and concentration, avoids periods of high energy followed by energy crashes and keeps hunger at bay longer. As someone who needs all of those things to be happening (and wants the same for my kids), I’m putting more focus on high protein breakfasts (and lunch and dinner). It’s working, for all of us. But when we’re in a rush in the morning, cereal is fast and making a high-protein breakfast can take some time. So when the folks from Johnsonville(R) sent me some coupons to try their Fully Cooked Original Recipe or Turkey Breakfast Sausage, I was glad to try them.

Sure enough, both kinds of sausage cooked up quickly and were delicious. My trick was to put them in a skillet first, to start heating up, while I got out the eggs to scramble and my spatula, plates, cups and silverware. In the time it took to do that, the sausage was ready. I took them out of the skillet (or scooted them to the side of the skillet) and cooked up scrambled eggs. In just a few minutes, breakfast was on!

Here are a couple of creative breakfast recipes from Johnsonville(R) using the fully cooked sausages. I had to go to a couple of different stores to find the breakfast sausage selections. Had I just used their Where to Buy link, I could have saved myself some driving.